Saturday, July 4, 2009

Dual Citizenship: Building An Asset.

By Frank Brown

To operate efficiently in the global economy, you may want to consider getting a dual citizenship. Dual citizenship can be defined as being a citizen of two countries. You may be born in one and can acquire the citizenship of another. You may be lucky to have mixed parentage that conferred dual citizenship upon you. You can also fulfil the formalities of a country of your choice and obtain its citizenship.

While some countries do not allow dual citizenship, and would like you to renounce the citizenship of the other country when you apply for citizenship, others are relaxed about this. By and large, a country is concerned only with the fact that you are a resident citizen and they ignore your citizenship of another country. In order to obtain a dual citizenship you need to work closely with the legal and embassy people of the country of your choice, and complete all the required immigration formality like residency, investment and others. Once you get the second passport you can start enjoying the many advantages of dual citizenship.

You get to live and work in two countries. At times, like if you have a European Union citizenship, you get a wider base and can work in several countries. You can also take advantage of some benefits offered by the government of the country like free healthcare, grants, education etc.

You can travel freely through both the countries and have lesser immigration formalities to complete to visit countries that are allies to both these countries. You can also conduct your business in all these places with ease. Having multiple bases to operate from is advantageous.

Most countries restrict foreigners from building financial empires on their land. They also limit the amount of business you can conduct. You can definitely circumvent this by becoming a naturalized citizen.

You can save yourself a lot of worries in travel and will have to face no problems in travelling between the two countries and any others that these two are affiliated to. A Japanese passport is easily accepted for China for instance.

You can research the market and move to a country which has the need for the kind of business you specialize in. Fulfil their citizenship procedures, become a naturalized citizen and conduct your business comfortably.

Moreover, you may be able to pass on the dual citizenship to your children too after fulfilling some minor formalities, which can reap the same benefits.

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